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LPI-Newsletter February 2004

The month of February 2004 was another busy month for the Linux Professional Institute.

Hello,

The month of February 2004 was another busy month for the Linux Professional Institute.

LPI-Brazil

Linux Professional Institute Approved Training Material - LATM

LPI around the world

LPI-US

Linux Approved Training Partner Program - LATP

LPI in Brussels and Bulgaria

Looking for input

Linux Magazine - Gold Sponsor

Samba training

1; LPI-Brazil

LPI-Brazil is one of LPI's affiliates and they have tried to create a strong presence in Brazil to ensure LPI becomes well known in Government, Academia and the Corporate world. They have been very successful - and you can participate on their lpi-brasil mailing list by registering here; http://www.lpi.org/en/maillists.html

They have recently attracted a new sponsor; EFTI We welcome EFTI to the Linux Professional Institute. For details on EFTI please contact Mr. Avel de Alencar - http://www.efti.com.br/

IBM and Bradford Learning have had their courseware approved by the process shown on the LPI web site in the above web page for some time and most recently a new offering of LATM is available from Linux Certified. http://www.linuxcertified.com

Anyone interested in purchasing LATM should contact the courseware developer.

He and Stacy Gildenston (Director of Certification) and are part of a number of panels during "Penguin Day" on Sunday, March 28 sponsored in part by the Non-Profit Open Source Initiative (NOSI). See http://www.penguinday.org/

This conferences is an opportunity for non-profit organizations from across the U.S. and around the world to discuss how technology may better serve the mission of their organizations.

4; LPI-US

Our affiliate in the US has built a web site and hopes to encourage input from the community to build a strong LPI presence in the US. Wesley Duffee-Braun of LPI-US commented that the site is not fully built but he looked forward to discussions on the contents and the LPI program in general.

Please have a look at these new web sites, and let Wesley know if you have any comments, ideas or thoughts on his efforts here;

Glenn McKnight, our business director, met with many interested French speaking contacts when he flew to Brussels to attend the Fossdem and Freeedem conferences last month.

He was able to let them know that LPI is at present translating the exams into French as well as Portuguese, Chinese, German and Spanish. We will provide details as soon as these exams are published at Vue and Prometric within the next few weeks.

In the next 2 weeks we will have an interface ready to accept new items to keep the exams uptodate. Please watch the web site and mailing lists for details on this process which will ensure LPI remains a valid and quality worldwide certification.

We are also looking for input on Level 2 and 3 (Samba and Security) job tasks, please give us some of your ideas on the job tasks for these levels;

Finally, Jon Terpstra, one of the Samba team members (who has been a supporter of LPI for many years ) will host a Samba training day in Toronto on April 16th following the Real World Linux Show (see above). The event will be held at the Strathcona Hotel, Toronto.